Course detail
Energy Storage Technologies
FEKT-MPA-UEOAcad. year: 2022/2023
Overview of energy storage, thermal and electrical storage. Storage of heat energy. Energy storage based on physical principles - flywheels, PVE, CAES, SMES. Electrochemical storage of energy, basic terms of electrochemistry and electrochemical sources. Lead accumulators, alkaline accumulators, lithium accumulators. Accumulators for special applications. Super capacitors. Fuel cells.
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Offered to foreign students
Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
up to 60 points from a written final exam
The final exam is focused on verification of knowledge and awareness in the field of electrical materials.
Course curriculum
2. Thermal energy storage
3. Power storage based on physical principles - flywheels, PVE, CAES, SMES
4. Basic terms of electrochemistry and electrochemical energy sources
5. Accumulators - overview. Lead accumulators, basic principles, division of structures
6. Lead accumulators
7. Alkaline batteries
8. Lithium accumulators, basic principles
9. Lithium batteries - safety
10. Accumulators for special applications, superconductors
11. redox flow batteries
12. Fuel Cells - Overview, Design, Characteristics.
13. Application of accumulators in independent power sources
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Elearning
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Lecture
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Syllabus
2. Storage of thermal energy
3. Storage of thermal energy
4. Overview of electric energystorage
5. Electric energy storage based onphysical principles – flywheels, PVE, CAES, SMES
6. Fundamentals of electrochemistryand electrochemical energy sources
7. Lead-acid batteries,fundamentals, design
8. Alkaline storage batteries,fundamentals, design
9. Lithium storage batteries,fundamentals
10. Lithium storage batteries -safety
11. Fuel cells - overview, design,properties
12. Flow-through redox batteries,storage batteries for special applications
13. Use of storage batteries inindependent sources of electric energy
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Current-Voltage Characteristics of a Hydrogen/Oxygen Fuel Cell as a Function of Temperature
3. Study of the properties of a secondary electrochemical cell using EIS
4. Study of the discharge characteristics of a secondary electrochemical cell
5. Flow-through vanadium storage battery
Elearning